Jim Motavalli, editor of the Norwalk-based E Magazine, an independent
national environmental bi-monthly publication, will speak on
campus on Earth Day.

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Motavalli will speak about global warming, and the connection
between peace-making, environmental justice, and the upcoming
Presidential election, on April 22 at 7 p.m. in the Conference
Room at the Center for Undergraduate Education.

He also will speak at the UConn Co-op at 5 p.m.

Motavalli, a UConn alumnus, is the author of Breaking Gridlock:
Moving Toward Transportation That Works (2002) and Forward Drive:
The Race to Build "Clean" Cars for the Future (2000), both published
by Sierra Club Books/Random House. His latest book, Feeling
the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Change,
which is based on reporting in E Magazine, was published by
Routledge in March.

Motavalli, former editor of the Fairfield County Weekly (formerly
Fairfield County Advocate), writes regularly for the New York
Times "Automobiles" and "Escapes" sections, and produces a weekly
auto column, which appears in The Philadelphia Review and five
other papers. He is the "Conservation Works" columnist for AMC
Outdoors, the "Autos and the Environment" columnist for the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, and writes "Green Living" for Solutions,
the Environmental Defense newsletter. His writing on population
won a 1999 Global Media Award from the Population Institute.

Motavalli hosts a bi-weekly public affairs and music radio show
on listener-supported WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Conn. He teaches
journalism at Fairfield University.